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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Birds blackbirds, and thrushes, and sparrers, and starlings. Ketches 'em in traps like I do the rats." "But do you really eat rats?" "Yes them as comes after the apples in the loft and after the corn. They are good." "But don't you get enough to eat at home?" I asked him. "Home! what, here?" "No, I mean your home." "What, where I sleeps? Sometimes." "But you're not obliged to eat these things.
He even stopped and muttered something to his companion. Burke's blood was up in an instant. He advanced quickly toward the tough. Jimmie sneered, as he stood his ground, confident in the security of his political protection. "Move on there," snapped Burke. "This is no loafing place." "Aaaah, go chase sparrers," snarled Jimmie the Monk. "Who ye think yer talking to, rookie?"
I tell ye them four books that gin his story is chock full o' things that go right to the heart o' fishermen, nets, an' hooks, an' boats, an' the shores, an' the sea, an' the mountings, Peter's fishin'-coat, lilies, an' sparrers, an' grass o' the fields, an' all about the evenin' sky bein' red or lowerin', an' fair or foul weather.
So he began: "Didn't I understand you to observe, mum, some time back, that the pidgings and sparrers were your birds?" "They are mine," she said "or they were mine in days that are past." "Well," he said, "there's a place close by, with railings in front of it, and steps and pillars as you go in, and if you like to go and look in the yard there you'll find pidgings enough to set you up again.
The Lord is in His holy temple; the earth is His footstool h-m!" The parson struggled helplessly with a tangle of texts here; but the right one seemed to fail him, till Hannah audaciously put it in: "Well, you know what it says about takin' care of sparrers, in the Bible, and how we was more valerable than they be, a lot. That kind o' text comes home these times, I tell ye.
But if you was to go to the beadle at the lodge and demand them, I've no doubt you'd be attended to; and you'll see some parties at the gates in long coats and black cloth 'elmets, which if you ask them to ketch you a few sparrers, they'll probably be most happy to oblige." "My beloved birds!" she said. "I have been absent from them so long. Yes, I will go. Tell me where."
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